Why was the battle stalled 40 days (17:16)? Why didn’t Goliath or Saul’s army attack earlier? How does this apply to us? Why did David reject Saul’s armor (17:39)? If Goliath was such an intimidating giant then why did he wear so much armor? David asked “Is there not a cause?” (29) What “causes” confront us as Christians that demand us to engage the enemy? How had David’s experience as a shepherd prepared him to face Goliath? How has God prepared you to defeat your giants? Identify a giant in your life. What lessons have you learned from David & Goliath that give you a strategy for defeating your giant?

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Hebrews 11:32
I Samuel 17
“Defeating giants”

2. I Samuel 17:42–45
And when the Philistine looked about and saw
David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth,
ruddy and good-looking. 43 So the Philistine said to
David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with
sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me,
and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and
the beasts of the field!” 45 Then David said to the
Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a
spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the
name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel, whom you have defied.

3. I. THE CRISIS (1-3)
A. Superior Enemy Forces (1a)
Now the Philistines
gathered their
armies together to
battle

4. I. THE CRISIS (1-3)
A. Superior Enemy Forces (1a)
B. Strategic Location (1b)
Now the Philistines
gathered their armies
together to battle, and
were gathered at Sochoh,
which belongs to Judah;
they encamped between
Sochoh and Azekah

7. Tel Azekah from the Valley of Elah

8. I. THE CRISIS (1-3)
A. Superior Enemy Forces
B. Strategic Location
C. Stalemated Condition

9. I. THE CRISIS (1-3)
2 And Saul and the men of
Israel were gathered together,
and they encamped in the
Valley of Elah, and drew up in
battle array against the
Philistines. 3 The Philistines
stood on a mountain on one
side, and Israel stood on a
mountain on the other side,
with a valley between them.

10. II. THE CHALLENGE (4-11)
A. Goliath’s Description (4)
And a champion went out from the camp of
the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath,
whose height was six cubits and a span.
Imposing Stature of 9 ½ feet

11. II. THE CHALLENGE (4-11)
A. Goliath’s Description (5)
He had a bronze helmet on
his head, and he was
armed with a coat of mail,
and the weight of the coat
was five thousand shekels
of bronze.
5000 shekels (125 lbs)

12. II. THE CHALLENGE (4-11)
A. Goliath’s Description (6-7)
And he had bronze armor on his legs and a
bronze javelin between his shoulders. 7 Now
the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam,
and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred
shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him.
600 shekels = 15 lbs

13. II. THE CHALLENGE (4-11)
A. Goliath’s Description (4)
B. Goliath’s Defiance (8-10)
Then he stood and cried out to the armies of
Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out
to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you
the servants of Saul? Choose a man for
yourselves, and let him come down to me. 9 If he
is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will
be your servants. But if I prevail against him and
kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve
us.”

14. II. THE CHALLENGE (4-11)
A. Goliath’s Description (4)
B. Goliath’s Defiance (8-10)
10 And the Philistine said, “I defy the
armies of Israel this day; give me a man,
that we may fight together.”
“champion,” comes from 2 Hebrew
words = “a man between”

15. II. THE CHALLENGE (4-11)
A. Goliath’s Description (4-7)
B. Goliath’s Defiance (8-10)
C. Goliath’s Discouraging Influence (11)
When Saul and all Israel heard these words
of the Philistine, they were dismayed and
greatly afraid.

16. III. THE COMMITMENT (12-41)
A. In Spite of Immense Superiority (12-26)
25 So the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this
man who has come up? Surely he has come up
to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who
kills him the king will enrich with great riches,
will give him his daughter, and give his father’s
house exemption from taxes in Israel.”

17. III. THE COMMITMENT (12-41)
A. In Spite of Immense Superiority (12-27)
B. In Spite of Family Criticism (28-30)
28 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he
spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused
against David, and he said, “Why did you come
down here? And with whom have you left those
few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride
and the insolence of your heart, for you have
come down to see the battle.”

18. III. THE COMMITMENT (12-41)
A. In Spite of Immense Superiority (12-27)
B. In Spite of Family Criticism (28-30)
29 And David said, “What have I done now? Is
there not a cause?” 30 Then he turned from
him toward another and said the same thing;
and these people answered him as the first
ones did.

19. III. THE COMMITMENT (12-41)
A. Immense Superiority (12-26)
B. Family Criticism (27-30)
C. Royal Discouragement (31-37)
In Spite of . . .
32 Then David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart
fail because of him; your servant will go and fight
with this Philistine.” 33 And Saul said to David,
“You are not able to go against this Philistine to
fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man
of war from his youth.”

20. III. THE COMMITMENT (12-41)
A. Immense Superiority (12-26)
B. Family Criticism (27-30)
C. Royal Discouragement (31-37)
D. Apparent Defenselessness (38-40)
In Spite of . . .

21. III. THE COMMITMENT (12-41)
In Spite of . . .
38 So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a
bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a
coat of mail. 39 David fastened his sword to his armor
and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And
David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have
not tested them.” So David took them off. 40 Then he
took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five
smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a
shepherd’s bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling
was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine.

22. III. THE COMMITMENT (12-41)
In Spite of . . .

23. IV. THE CONFLICT (42-49)
A. David's Announcement (45)
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to
me with a sword, with a spear, and with a
javelin. But I come to you in the name of the
LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,
whom you have defied.

24. IV. THE CONFLICT (42-49)
A. David's Announcement (45)
B. David's Anticipation (46, 47)
This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and
I will strike you and take your head from you. And
this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the
Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts
of the earth, that all the earth may know that there
is a God in Israel. 47 Then all this assembly shall
know that the LORD does not save with sword and
spear; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give
you into our hands.”

25. IV. THE CONFLICT (42-49)
A. David's Announcement (45)
B. David's Anticipation (46, 47)
C. David's Action (48, 49)
So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and
drew near to meet David, that David hurried and
ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 Then
David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone;
and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his
forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead,
and he fell on his face to the earth.

27. I Samuel 17:50–51
So David prevailed over
the Philistine with a sling
and a stone, and struck
the Philistine and killed
him. But there was no
sword in the hand of
David. 51 Therefore David
ran and stood over the
Philistine, took his sword
and drew it out of its
sheath and killed him, and
cut off his head with it.
And when the Philistines
saw that their champion
was dead, they fled.

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